India, South Africa and the rest of the world – Joan Marston on South African Television.
“India produces a third of the world’s opium, but until recently, the legislation to provide that medication was so difficult that many hospitals refused to actually stock opioids,” said Joan Marston, CEO of the International Children’s Palliative Care Network (ICPCN), in an interview with South African Broadcasting Corporation(SABC).
She also spoke about 67th World Health Assembly (WHA) at Geneva and the landmark resolution on palliative care that was passed at the event, which asks that palliative care be integrated into the health system of all participating countries as part of comprehensive care and across the life course of a person. “So it means that from the tiny little newborn baby right up to the oldest of the elderly should receive palliative care.”
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